The fourth and final day of this round of hearings called to examine the preliminary issues raised by the defense of Juan Carlos I before the civil lawsuit (harassment, illegal surveillance and defamation) of his ex-lover Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein ended this Friday, July 21, with an exhortation to the judge Rowena Rice-Collins: deny summary dismissal (strike out application) of the demand that Juan Carlos I requests, ratify the British jurisdiction, agree that the emeritus king signs his defense brief on the facts to process this procedure (case manager) to trial.
In his presentation, the lawyer before the court (‘barrister’) Andrew Green, pointed out that, in effect, Juan Carlos I Until now, he has not presented a defense brief against the facts that Corinna accuses him of. In her writings, her attorneys they deny the harassment. But they have not entered the substance of the accusations. For this reason, of course, he has not presented evidence to the contrary or witnesses.
in these four sessionsCorinna’s lawyers – in these last two sessions the barrister Green-have made an assessment of the facts between 2012 and 2020. Although the alleged harassment prior to June 18, 2014, the date of the abdication of Juan Carlos I, it just can’t be put on trial because the Court of Appeals has given him State immunity – the services that General Felix Sanz Roldanthen director of National Intelligence Center (CNI), have been considered official acts covered by immunity while Juan Carlos I was acting king-, Corinna’s lawyers invoke these behaviors as background of an alleged ongoing act of harassment that followed and intensified after the abdication.
This alleged harassment, according to Corinna, experienced an important development when, at the meeting on September 12, 2014, held between Juan Carlos Iyour Swiss lawyer, Canonical Dante, and the ex-lover, at The Connaught Hotel in the London neighborhood of Mayfair. In said meeting, Corrinna was questioned directly by the brand new emeritus-she had just abdicated three months before June 18, 2014 – to make available hard cash from the €64.8 million that he had irrevocably donated to him (the documents were drawn up by Canonica’s lawyer) at the beginning of June 2012 when the account of the Panamanian Lucum foundation was closed (whose beneficiary was Juan Carlos I and his heirs, the then Prince of Asturias and his sisters). His refusal would have caused the persecution so that, after all, he would return all the money. The lawyers explained that, therefore, it was not a gift but an attempt by Juan Carlos I to use the money that the Saudi king had allegedly given him Abdulaziz in 2008 through Corinna as a straw woman. A trustee, wow.
hole in the story
Now, when mentioning the events of 2012-2014 as previous harassment (entry and search at Corinna’s home and offices in Monaco, in May 2012, among others), the story inadvertently surfaces a hole.
If the “visit & rdquor; that Corinna received from General Sanz Roldán at The Connaught Hotel on May 5, 2012 – where, according to the ex-lover, he threatened both her and her children – was part of the harassment, why 30 days later, at the beginning of June 2012, did Juan Carlos I (it must be understood that with the green light from his close adviser, General Sanz Roldán) transferred her 100 million dollars (64.8 million euros) to an account of yours in Nassau (Bahamas)?
He harassment and donation at the same time they do not fit into the puzzle. Asked about this, Corinna usually answers that the irrevocable donation was decided in November 2011. And although there are indications that it was, this does not settle the issue.
The account of events that his lawyers have made in recent days reiterate the sequence of those events that, curiously, the defense of Juan Carlos I he/she/it has not rebutted. Sanz Roldán’s trip to London on May 5, 2012 -which undoubtedly took place at the initiative of Juan Carlos I- fits into the puzzle not as harassment but as a visit aimed at formalize the pact to transfer the money.
The reality: after that encounter in the prince’s suite (The Prince’s Lodge), number 518, between the general and the ex-lover, Canonica, following the instructions of Juan Carlos I, transferred the €64.8 million to Corinna’s account, opened for this purpose, from Switzerland at the Gonet bank, Nassau (Bahamas).
corinna explained as defendant to the Swiss prosecutor Yves Bertossain December 2018, that Juan Carlos I gave him the money, probably with the idea that it was the way to recover the relationship with her. In her allegations before the High Court of Justice (High Court of England and Wales), the ex-lover narrates that after his abdication, Juan Carlos I’s visits to London became more frequent and that she collaborated with the redecoration of a house in the Knightsbridge neighborhoodnext to Hyde Park, who had given him the sultan of oman (valued at €62 million). The emeritus, it is true, consulted on his day, when he was still acting monarch, the possibility of divorce queen Sofiato remarry Corinna.
waning idyll
Therefore, in this chess game of a waning idyll one of the two contestants knew very well what he wanted and made token movements that caused the other to trust him end result. Corinna played along with the king emeritus, who after defrauding the Spanish Treasury, between August 8, 2008, when he received the transfer in his Lucum account, and 2012, gave him another twist. Instead of benefiting from the tax amnesty of the Government of Mariano Rajoy at that time, he put it in the name of who, he believed, would allow him to keep it safe in a tax haven (Bahamas) and use it.
Why, how was the king of Spain in office going to declare black money to the Treasury in 2012? Wouldn’t it be the icing on the cake for a possible end of the monarchy when transcending as it would inevitably occur?
When one hears the lawyers for both sides in the courtroom High Court of Justice of England and Wales to comment on the facts and procedural issues, and Justice Collins Rice to ask questions, she wonders if all this is not more than a footnote to the history of the Spanish monarchy resurrected by the dictator, Francisco Franco, in the Law of Succession in the Headquarters of State, in 1947, when constituting, after 16 years (fall of the monarchy and proclamation of the republic on April 14, 1931), Spain once again as a kingdom. They discuss harassment, telephone and computer interventions, monitoring, threats, fortunes that go from one country to another and from one account to another, fraud, and this has not yet reached a trial, that is, the evidence and witnesses have yet to be heard.
And the conclusion, as a ‘barrister’ of Spanish origin says to EL PERIÓDICO, almost inevitable is: “I am surprised that they have not agreed yet. Pathetic”. But it is very difficult for Juan Carlos I to agree (and for his Majesty’s House. Felipe VI due to the repercussions). “Agree it always costs. They have a big chaos in their defense & rdquor ;, replies the ‘barrister’. Now we know that Corinna has set the price very high, although logically she could lower it: 146 million euros.
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But it is that Juan Carlos I could not confess that he had defrauded and kept the fortune out -in a bad way from what has been seen- and he cannot agree with Corinna either.
Although it is true that he was finally forced to pay the Treasury five million euros to regularize your fraud, go to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and obtain your tax domicile there.